Wines of the Week

Domaine Leflaive 2007 Montrachet grand cru                              97 Sometimes, it’s really all in a name, and it’s admittedly hard to do better than Domaine Leflaive and Montrachet. Joseph Leflaive, who was born in 1870 and lived until the...

Beringer 1995 Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve                   95 Beringer was officially founded in 1869, but its history was really set into motion the year before, in 1868, when Jacob Beringer washed upon US shores from his native Mainz...

Lanson 2000 Champagne Noble Cuvée             94 Hervé Dantan is only the third winemaker or chef de cave at Lanson in the last fifty years. He has held this prestigious post for eight years now (since July 15, 2013), after having compiled work...

Even in a year as a difficult as 2020 turned out to be for the world of wine (not that 2021 has been a walk in the park, at least, not this far) there were reasons to smile. Clearly, the smiling was limited to when the mind stopped focusing on the...

Château d’Yquem 1976
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands Échézeaux 1990
Reif Estate Winery Vidal Icewine Niagara River 2017 
Tiberio Montepulciano d’Abruzzo “Archivio” 2017 
Trimbach Riesling Clos Ste. Hune 1971

1989 Château Coutet Barsac                                                               94 Simply put, Château Coutet is one of the top four or five Bordeaux sweet wine producers, with a long history of producing one amazing wine after another.  In...

2017 Bassermann-Jordan Deidesheimer Paradiesgarten Riesling Kabinett                                   92 One of my favourite wine estates in the world (my first visit there many years ago in the company of winemaker Uli Mell remains one of the high...

1967 Luigi Minuto Cascina Luisin Barbaresco 
JJ Prüm 2006 Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese 

2013 Muré Gewurztraminer Alsace Grand Cru Zinnkoepflé 
2016 Corino Barolo Giachini 

2010 Château  Rieussec Sauternes
1997 Dr.Loosen Ürziger Würzgarten Riesling Spatlese